Luck famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.
-- A. E. Housman -
Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength, and struck.
-- A. E. Housman -
Let's find out what everyone is doing, And then stop everyone from doing it.
-- A. P. Herbert -
Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
-- Aaron Allston -
I think that everyone's life is controlled by a series of events. They choose what they want and if it is in their control they can reach it. Sometimes luck shines on them and sometimes it doesn't. I also think accidents happen and we are placed in situations where we have to do things for those we love that we don't want to do.
-- Abbi Glines -
Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Shooting is 99 per cent luck and one per cent training
-- Abhinav Bindra -
Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and many calculate what Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other.
-- Abraham de Moivre -
With luck, a writer capable of producing both Slouching Towards Kalamazoo and The Blood of the Lamb will not remain unappreciated for long.
-- Adam Kirsch -
An excellent weapon and luck had been on my side. To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.
-- Adolf Galland -
My success has been as full of luck as a crapshooter's dream.
-- Adolphe Menjou -
I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.
-- Al Alvarez -
We're trying to work on Sami to get through that and shoot the puck. MacInnis shot the puck all the time. If there was a fool who wanted to stand in front and break an ankle, tough luck.
-- Alain Vigneault -
There is a lot of luck in football. Following England is like following Wycombe Wanders or Leyton Orient. You hope for the best and hope you are lucky.
-- Alan Sugar -
In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.
-- Albert Camus -
Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star.... His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in some obscure way, that he would obtain many things without deserving them.
-- Albert Camus -
For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.
-- Albert Camus -
Luck is an accident that happens to the competent.
-- Albert M. Greenfield -
Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course.
-- Alex Trebek -
One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.
-- Alexander Fleming -
His huff arrived and he departed in it.
-- Alexander Woollcott -
It is best never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps.
-- Alfred Polgar -
Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.
-- Alice Hoffman -
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape
-- Alice James -
If you have nothing good to say about anyone, come and sit with me.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth -
It wasn't like I felt I was on a wave. It was just so easy. It is only afterwards that I thought I really had a bit of good luck going on there with Yazoo.
-- Alison Moyet -
A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next
-- Amber Tamblyn -
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.
-- Amelia Barr -
There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.
-- Amy Hempel -
Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.
-- Amy Tan -
With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.
-- Andy Grove -
I believe modeling is a combination of natural talent, the ability to adapt to different situations, hard work, and, most importantly, luck.
-- Anja Rubik -
I'm just living my life. I'm incredibly disciplined and I work incredibly hard. I show up for things on time, I do my homework, and I work my ***** off. I've had a lot of luck, but I work really, really hard.
-- Anna Paquin -
People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
-- Anne Tyler -
I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.
-- Anne Tyler -
Long experience has told me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong.
-- Anthony Eden -
Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
Luck is manufactured in the factory of GOD only. So no reason for believing only GOD and not LUCK.
-- Anuj -
Sure, I rose the wrong way today, I have had such damn'd ill luck every way.
-- Aphra Behn -
I guess the kid had everything but the luck.
-- Aristotle Onassis -
History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different.
-- Arthur Goldberg -
I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
-- Arthur Golden -
I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.
-- Arthur Hailey -
Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided by someone.
-- Ayn Rand -
Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.
-- Ba Jin -
Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful.
-- Babyface -
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
-- Barbara Sher -
He's very, very well-known. I'd say he's world-famous in Melbourne.
-- Barry Humphries -
Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.
-- Bear Grylls -
Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
-- Bear Grylls -
Luck is what a capricious man believes in.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
-- Bernard Baruch -
You don't luck into integrity. You work at it.
-- Betty White -
Friendship takes time and energy if it's going to work. You can luck into something great, but it doesn't last if you don't give it proper appreciation. Friendship can be so comfortable, but nurture it-don't take it for granted.
-- Betty White -
Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.
-- Bill Brandt -
Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it is amazing how little time we take to remark upon this singular and gratifying fact. By the most astounding stroke of luck an infinitesimal portion of all the matter in the universe came together to create you and for the tiniest moment in the great span of eternity you have the incomparable privilege to exist.
-- Bill Bryson -
I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.
-- Bill Cosby -
When have you ever seen a one on one match up on this platform? Andrew Luck on offense…going against J.J. Watt
-- Bill Cowher -
J.J. Watt, he does on defense what Andrew Luck does on offense. He inspires those around him, he makes them better.
-- Bill Cowher -
The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.
-- Bob Goodlatte -
I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
-- Bobby Knight -
I feel very, very grateful. I'm a lucky guy, you need a lot of luck, and then when the cameras roll, you have to have this group of writers, directors, and actors that just gel, and it seems to literally be happening more and more.
-- Brad Garrett -
Luck is the residue of opportunity and design.
-- Branch Rickey -
Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.
-- Brandon Mull -
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
-- Bret Harte -
Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.
-- Brian Tracy -
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
-- Brian Tracy -
I would like to say I've achieved goals, but really, modeling is all luck. You're not really achieving anything. The least hardworking person with a special face can be huge and have a whole world of success.
-- Brooklyn Decker -
Sometimes you wonder why the only luck we have is bad luck. But you move on.
-- Bruce Bochy -
If this is a good-luck month for us, that would be great.
-- Bruce Bochy -
You have to create your own luck. You have to be aware of the opportunities around you and take advantage of them.
-- Bruce Lee -
When it comes to luck, you make your own.
-- Bruce Springsteen -
I had the luck of having an obedient body.
-- Burt Lancaster -
With any luck, by the time NASA's space probe hits Pluto, you'll be booking a spaceflight with a privately run suborbital airline.
-- Burt Rutan -
These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
Believing there's no such thing as luck is very unlucky. Like, the worst. Beyond stealing someone's lucky four-leaf clover.
-- Caprice Crane -
I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
-- Carl Sandburg -
One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck.
-- Carl Zuckmayer -
I was convinced that luck was a matter of knowing what one wanted and then being willing to work to make the wish come true.
-- Carlos P. Romulo -
To those who voted for me, thank you. And to those who didn't, better luck next year!
-- Cate Blanchett -
Bad luck relies on absolutely perfect timing.
-- Catherynne M. Valente -
Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.
-- Cecelia Ahern -
Life imposes things on you that you can't control, but you still have the choice of how you're going to live through this.
-- Celine Dion -
In New York you've got to have all the luck.
-- Charles Bukowski -
I got lost somehow, began staring up her legs. I was always a leg man. It was the first thing I saw when I was born. But then I was trying to get out. Ever since I have been working in the other direction and with pretty lousy luck.
-- Charles Bukowski -
If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.
-- Charles Kettering -
Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
-- Charles Kuralt -
If you can't take a good kicking, you shouldn't parade how much luckier you are than other people.
-- Charles Saatchi -
Contrary to what our brains are telling us, there's no mystical force that imbues a winner with a streak of luck, nor is there a cosmic sense of justice that ensures that a loser's luck will turn around. The universe doesn't care one whit whether you've been winning or losing; each roll of the dice is just like every other.
-- Charles Seife
